_number8_ @ _number8_ @lemmy.world

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i haven't gotten fast food regularly in years (only once this year, trip to taco bell, feelin a bit proud tbh), but i have been lucky enough to WFH for a lot of that. when you're starving and want something you just want it, even if it's overpriced garbage. i dread the day of having to work an office job again.

what really pisses me off is the psychological manipulation: these companies think they can just rewire our brains with their dogshit marketing. ohh $3 is actually fair for 1 hashbrown. there was never a ""dollar menu"". they don't even list the damn prices on their website like a normal restaurant. it's so fucking shady and dishonest, the whole damn thing, the gray prison architecture, taking away the soda fountains from customers (and making the kitchen people worry about drinks as well). it's so so fucking sick. WE'RE the ones suffering, they're the ones looking at graphs and DESIGNING our suffering. they don't have to pinch pennies, they don't have to pinch shit. fuck mcdonal i CANNOT wait to see them fall.

i thought you weren't meant to use the lord's name in vain

it's such a fucking joke that they're allowed to pay like $2/hr because they'll make it up in tips. just because customers are nice doesn't mean the employer should get off the hook like that. even the joke federal minimum wage is fuck all, that's like 1-2 sides at a decent restaurant

condemned breaking the law

really novel stuff here. thank god we have a competent president there to say breaking the law is bad

also

We can never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal." It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany. But I am sure that if I had lived in Germany during that time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers even though it was illegal. If I lived in a Communist country today where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I believe I would openly advocate disobeying these anti-religious laws.

[serious] why are there so many 'moderate' biden stans on this site (not you, but generally)? i thought lemmy was the sort of leftist reddit alternative

this is what always makes me insane. police presence inherently increases tension because oh now here's a gang of jackbooted thugs with guns and tasers and the power to ruin your life and/or murder you and get away with it, just hangin out. just tryna keep people safe.

i mean that shit must only work on the boomeriest boomers, right? that would only help at a particularly rowdy Kenny Chesney concert

i really don't want anything that further obfuscates the experience of me typing in a word and it showing me pages with that word. and i don't know why i'd want to type a full ass sentence in natural english versus just keywords

so biden won't accept a trump win and trump won't accept a biden win. good, good. awesome

i'm pretty sure trans people have a longer and richer history than mormons as well

even assuming the truth of the idea that it's good for children to have jobs, do they have to be cruelest and most grueling upton-sinclair ass jobs you can find? at least adults can drink after a long shift at the meat processing factory. kids should be working the register at a movie theater or something. also i can't imagine a small child is as efficient at cleaning out vats of blood as an adult would be

In a statement, Chief Executive Officer Mike Poore told KCTV5:

“Global pharmaceutical companies are putting profitability over affordability, making it impossible for employers like our hospital system to bear the financial burden of these exorbitant drug prices.

In January 2024, Mosaic’s Health Care Trustees made the gut-wrenching decision not to cover expensive gene therapy used to treat ultra-rare diseases. Covering these treatments could cripple the financial viability of our health system, directly impacting our more than 4,000 employees and the approximately 270,000 people who rely on the health care we provide in small communities across four states.

We are working hard to help find alternative solutions and financial resources to help in this case. Bottom line: Families should not have to focus on the astronomical costs imposed by drug companies, but instead should be able to focus on the care of their children in a medical crisis.”

wow it's almost like it's a shitty fucking system and you're very much a part of it.

from his linkedin:

"Mike is one of the finest men with whom I have ever worked. He relates well to and inspires his employees. He demands high quality while keeping his eye firmly on the bottom line. I would follow him anywhere!"

this is wonderful, thank you i've always heard people mention virtual travel and i figured it was like google street view + zoom quality; this is brilliant

i've never had an office job but it's extremely obnoxious they seem to regularly filter the internet like you're in school. there were so so many important resources (including youtube) which had legitimate educational and technical value they'd take away as some bullshit austerity ritual

companies don't even have to worry about that shit anymore. things are so perilous that there will always be people desperate enough for anything no matter how shitty the conditions

rich, high-intent product conversations

these people make me so fucking sick i cannot

i cannot believe this site i spent so many sad years posting on in high school, with pure heart, posting purely out of a desire for interesting interactions and the potential to make insightful, peer-reviewed contributions that others could enjoy, has turned into such fucking dead-eyed garbage.

honestly to me it feels cozy now relative to how shitty other platforms have gotten. i guess it was always leading the way at being shitty, so it doesn't feel like as stark a change (reddit, twitter)

the really stupid thing is that i feel like if i go and watch a film or read something for a few hours, that's an isolated experience. i'm disconnected from the (vague) sense of community i feel online; i feel like i'm missing things.

but then i go back online and it's the same garbage. even just 10 years ago it used to be good garbage, now it's just stuff that irritates me

why does it seem like basically all the past communist leaders were also evil and cruel? can't we get some chill ones?

cutest girl at work asked me if i knew what poppers were, then supplied the explanation after i said yes. unfortunately i was/am too stupid to advance the ball further, and we both left the job shortly after due to a terrible regime change

if you watch steve jobs' 2007 iphone keynote it's incredibly depressing now. he brags about how the iphone can load full, rich webpages instead of awful mobile versions; he loads the NYT website and gets the whole lush landscape desktop version, and taps to zoom in on certain elements. i used to be such a dork and so into tech in high school, it seemed so promising and wondrous.

i bet jobs could've yelled at spez about the API changes and gotten him to relent